| Description |
x, 260 pages : illustration ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260). |
| Contents |
An explosion in Brooklyn -- Fight or flight? Our built-in threat-defense program -- Diagnosis: spaghetti wrist -- Instrument of instruments: anatomy of the hand -- My family flies to my side -- Big-wave surfing: replanting a partially amputated hand -- Under water on the Upper East Side -- With respect to pain: how it helps and works -- At home with strangeness -- After the unthinkable: psychological recovery -- Music city TLC -- Pins and needles: peripheral nerve regeneration -- Farewell to the dream team -- It's all up to you, kiddo: rehabilitating a replanted hand -- Rotas and meltdowns -- Struggling with the status quo -- New normal: my right hand today. |
| Summary |
"After a freak accident, a young woman must recover from trauma and find what will make her whole again. Warm, funny, and brutally honest about what it means to feel vulnerable, this is a story of trauma and recovery for our time"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Fogg, Rebecca.
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Psychic trauma -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Hand -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Home accidents.
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| ISBN |
9780593086773 (hardcover) |
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